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No more school on Saturday
The 4-day week now applies to everyone. The ordeal of Saturday morning is over: getting up when you are not working yourself. A news that delights the vast majority of parents, enthusiastic about the idea of being able to relax or go on weekends for longer. Not to mention blended families or parents whose children are educated in different establishments. For them, organizing weekends was often an obstacle course.
The opinion of the pros on canceling lessons on Saturday mornings
If parents are seduced by this new organization of school time, specialists are sounding the alarm bells. According to chronobiologists, the elimination of Saturday classes could harm the child’s natural rhythms. His sleep needs, especially in kindergarten, are important (15 hours per day in small section). To best stick to the rhythms of the child, they would therefore recommend shortening the length of the days rather than that of the weeks.
A reception service on strike days
The mistress goes on strike? Don’t panic, there will now always be a solution. The law of July 23, 2008 imposes the establishment of a reception service for children in the absence of their teacher on days of social movements. In practice, it is a day care center which will be organized by the State or the municipality, but in no case a teaching time. A measure intended, according to the Ministry of National Education, to leave parents free to continue their professional activity in the event of a strike.
What the specialists say
On this issue, the unions express mixed opinions. Some congratulate the initiative, because they believe that the absence of the teacher or the mistress has direct consequences on the professional life of the parents. And especially for mothers, more likely to organize themselves and take a day off to look after their child. Others, more pessimistic on this subject, speak of obstructing the teachers’ right to strike and questioning the organizational conditions and the quality of reception of schoolchildren.
Two measures therefore which have found their opponents but which, without a doubt, should make life easier for parents.